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Re: Bubbles

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Post by vbezhenar »

est wrote: post #83
vbezhenar wrote: post #77

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You could make web animations 15 years ago. I don't know what's so special about flash that people miss in modern web.

> I don't know what's so special about flash A GUI authoring tool which everybody can learn instead of some insane manual canvas coding. From tech perspective, it works in my Pentium III computer, and the animation is streamable. Try that with JS?

With the abundance of software around I'm pretty sure that the're plenty of GUI authoring tools. According to quick Googling I can see that there's Adobe Animate which is successor of Adobe Flash and it supports HTML5 output.

I don't think that asking from modern software to work on Pentium 3 is reasonable. Software should work on a reasonable percentage of user computers. Pentium 3 is definitely outside of this definition. You didn't ask for Flash to work on 8086, did you? I'd expect it to be a challenge to even run Google Chrome on Pentium 3.

Re: Bubbles

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Post by BubbleRings »

frogulis wrote: post #106
Kerrick wrote: post #63

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The last time I remember seeing an internet toy was over a decade ago: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/browser-ball

If we're linking to internet toys, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion. Something I made a little while back: https://frogulis.net/little-bits/eye-on-a-string

I like it.

Re: Bubbles

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Post by npteljes »

gala8y wrote: post #112
nine_k wrote: post #29

It's a wonderful thing: a toy, not a game. A game has a goal. Here you are free to experiment without being led or nudged. In the world of computer-based entertainment, it is refreshing.

I hate almost all games for this need to advance, earn levels, die and start over, compete and score. One of very few games I played when I was young was Test Drive 4*, where I would simply drive around and play, switching wipers on and off. I liked sports cars games, but I would often go backwards or wonder off the track, if game permitted. Also.. Neverhood. And creative mode in Minecraft. *) Test Drive 3

There's games where the goal is this wandering off. Outer Wilds does this quite well I think.

Re: Bubbles

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Post by gala8y »

lioeters wrote: post #160
gala8y wrote: post #145

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> I learned this genre is sometimes called "idle games". That is very interesting. With "idle games" idea of playing games may be stretched to all different spaces of interacting with the computer/program, touching on learning, relaxation, ideation. Well... food for thought. > Neverhood looks fun! Love the claymation art. Neverhood is unique with its aesthetics as it was created with real, huge set made of real clay…

Cool! I enjoyed watching the making of Neverhood. Fascinating how they created a world from literally a ton and a half of clay, then turned it into interactive entertainment. And how Steven Spielberg was involved, bringing together a team of artists, musicians, programmers, crafts people. Love the physicality/materiality of clay, like one person said, how it has finger prints. Creatures and their environment all made…

> I enjoyed watching the making of Neverhood.

Glad you liked it. I feel it also shows amazing atmosphere and spirit of people involved and this is what attracts us. You know, like backstage of Fraggle Rock or The Muppet Show.

I will definitely read the paper / explore the idea of 'idle games'. Thx again.

Re: Bubbles

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Post by gala8y »

sorenjan wrote: post #68
Kerrick wrote: post #63

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The last time I remember seeing an internet toy was over a decade ago: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/browser-ball

I'd count Townscaper as a toy as well. https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper

Fun!

https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#IzBQKaIkyOM1lbn9IiXdyw...

Re: Bubbles

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Post by zelphirkalt »

Nition wrote: post #114
zelphirkalt wrote: post #113

Is anyone aware of a DOS game named Kernreaktor (nuclear reactor) and knows where to find it? Sonetimes its game type is also called "bubbles".

I've never heard of it, but it looks like you can download it from here: http://www.kultmags.com/games.php?folder=S2VyblJlYWt0b3I= (link under the screenshots)

Yes, that's it! How many years I have searched for this ... Thank you so much for finding it!

Re: Bubbles

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Post by exolymph »

frogulis wrote: post #106
Kerrick wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last time I remember seeing an internet toy was over a decade ago: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/browser-ball

If we're linking to internet toys, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion. Something I made a little while back: https://frogulis.net/little-bits/eye-on-a-string

Boing boing boing :D

Re: Bubbles

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Post by Nition »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #177
Nition wrote: post #114

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I've never heard of it, but it looks like you can download it from here: http://www.kultmags.com/games.php?folder=S2VyblJlYWt0b3I= (link under the screenshots)

Yes, that's it! How many years I have searched for this ... Thank you so much for finding it!

No problem. :)
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